Standard Area - MST:
Math, Science & Technology
- Standard - MST4: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
- Key Idea Code - MST4.LE:
- Key Idea - MST4.LE4: The continuity of life is sustained through reproduction and development.
- Academic Level - MST4.E.LE4:
- Performance Indicator - MST4.E.LE4A: Students describe the major stages in the life cycles of selected plants and animals.
- Major Understandings - 4.1a : Plants and animals have life cycles. These may include beginning of a life, development
into an adult, reproduction as an adult, and eventually death.
- Major Understandings - 4.1b : Each kind of plant goes through its own stages of growth and development that
may include seed, young plant, and mature plant.
- Major Understandings - 4.1c : The length of time from beginning of development to death of the plant is called
its life span.
- Major Understandings - 4.1d : Life cycles of some plants include changes from seed to mature plant.
- Major Understandings - 4.1e : Each generation of animals goes through changes in form from young to adult.
This completed sequence of changes in form is called a life cycle. Some insects change
from egg to larva to pupa to adult.
- Major Understandings - 4.1f : Each kind of animal goes through its own stages of growth and development
during its life span.
- Major Understandings - 4.1g : The length of time from an animal’s birth to its death is called its life span. Life
spans of different animals vary.
